KENT’S FIRST OVERSEAS PLAYER

KENT’S FIRST OVERSEAS PLAYER

We have been wondering recently who was Kent’s first overseas player. These days, every county has a whole raft of overseas players (not that they arrived in Britain on a raft, necessarily), and in Kent we have two born in South Africa – Dickson and Kuhn, three from...
KENT’S FIRST OVERSEAS PLAYER

LAND AND WATER

Sometimes a stone gets turned over almost by accident, to reveal a long forgotten part of Kent cricket history, and names which mean nothing to us now but which a century and a half ago were on everybody’s lips. An article in a recent issue of Trout and...
KENT’S FIRST OVERSEAS PLAYER

NAMING OF PARTS

Henry Reed, the Second World War poet, wrote a poem called “Naming Of Parts.” It begins “Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning.” It is a great poem, and it re-emerged from the back of my mind, stored there since the days of my ‘O’ Level...
KENT’S FIRST OVERSEAS PLAYER

TRUST CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 2017/18

The Kent Cricket Heritage Trust’s AGM will take place on 11th May, in the Chiesman Pavilion after close of play. The Chairman’s Statement has just been issued, as follows:   CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2017/18 The Heritage Trust is happy to report another...
KENT’S FIRST OVERSEAS PLAYER

MORE UFTON THAN KNOTT

On television this morning, the local BBC news showed a press conference with Jason Gillespie, newly installed as coach at Sussex. Even though there was a world wide storm raging about the doubtful actions of his fellow Australians Smith, Warner, Bancroft and a piece...